I shall make it my business to get to the bottom of the affair, and we will make short work with him if we find things are as I believe." Harry felt, therefore, that the danger was even more urgent than he had expressed it to Jeanne, and he had returned intending to propose immediate flight had not Jeanne been beforehand with her news.

Even now he hesitated whether even a day's delay might not ruin them.
"Have you told me all, Harry ?" Jeanne asked.
"Not quite all, Jeanne.

I was just thinking it over.

I fear the danger is even more pressing than I have said;" and he repeated the sentence he had overheard.

"Even now," he said, "that fellow may be watching outside or making inquiries about you.